Sponsored by Northside Democracy for America, Edgewater Community Council and the Northeast Illinois Chapter of Americans for Democratic Action
7:00 p.m. Wednesday, January 6th Sulzer Regional Library 4455 North Lincoln Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60625
Join Senator Heather Steans, Jim Madigan, friends and neighbors this Wednesday evening to meet the candidates and ask questions about the issues that matter to you before you vote.
Important Dates: To vote in this primary election, you must be registered by January 5. Early Voting begins January 11 and will be available through January 28. There are Early Voting Locations throughout the city. To vote February 2, be sure to locate your polling place. Visit the Chicago Board of Elections website and search by address.
Since the live bloggers may be too busy to accept live comments, here is an open thread for comments to the live blog above. But do try your hand in the comment ability above as this is still a new experience for us all. Notice that the live blog should follow you as you comment on this diary or any others. I even see it now as I write.
For those who like the idea of an open candidate forum, but were not able to attend the February 1st event, I would like to inform you of the Candidates' Forum on Disabilities sponsored by Access Living, Anixter Center, Asian Human Services, Chicago ADAPT, C4, Chicago House, Equip for Equality, Howard Brown Health Center, the Institute on Disability and Human Development at UIC, Open Doors Organization, and Progress CIL on Febraury 16th from 2-4 p.m. at Access Living, 115 W. Chicago Ave.
Illinois5th.com Forum. Well, Okay, the fire marshals weren't actually there (at least not to my knowledge.) What an amazing event. Beyond my expectations in every way. This is the way democracy is supposed to be run. It's a shame it wasn't on network tv. Hat's off to all the sponsors.
The winner was Jan H. Donatelli. Of course, that's in the expectations game. The runner's up were the doctors. But don't get me wrong, the professional politicians held their own. Even Frank Annunzio presented himself well.
Here's a quick hit on the top four, Mike, Sara, John and Tom. Mike was down, Sara was flat, John held his own and Tom impressed as expected. Israel was the trick question. It's a question you have to finesse. The question was "Would you increase spending on Israel?" See what I mean about it being trick. I assume that that was Lyn Sweet's doing. On the whole she was the most authoritarian person on the dais. Really that shouldn't be a hard question to finesse. Sara didn't particularly try and said yes, but blah blah. Fine she did her finesse thing. Fritchey did a great job finessing it. So good that I had trouble writing down whether he actually said yes or no. Tom did his intelligent type answer, "no" because he'd seen no reason to increase it. But Mike, oh Mike, Mike Mike. He said yes, he'd increase it. Well so had Sara. But for Blah Blah Blah, he then launched into worrying about Iran, the "much greater threat." Oooops.
NDFA (Northsi8de Democracy for America) is sponsoring a forum on
Getting out of Iraq What can one person do?
at
Edgewater Library
1210 W. Elmdale (6000 N. At Broadway)
on Thursday, 13 Dec.
at 7:00 p.m.
Speakers are
Christine Cegelis, who needs no description here, and
Jeff Leys of Voices for Creative Nonviolence
Jeff has taken several trips to Iraq, and the group is Kathy Kelly's group.
Illinois5th.com